Re: step by step upgrades for MRs?

@AjitKumar is correct. You cannot currently step the upgrades. Is there any particular reason why you'd want to do this? If it is for stability testing do you have any other networks with fewer APs? We typically do firmware updates on those smaller networks first to make sure things are stable before rolling it out to our sites with more APs. One potential, but not ideal, option would be to split your devices into two networks. But that would be only if you absolutely have to do them separate and have no other networks.

Re: step by step upgrades for MRs?

I would like to see the APs to more gracefully update their firmware on the same network so that there is virtually no outage. An AP should stop accepting clients, handoff its current clients to a nearby AP, and then update its firmware. Once the update has been verified, then it can make itself available for clients and then the next AP will update until all APs are updated.